Official Summaries

Return Excessive Migrants and Asylees to International Neighbors in Mexico Act of 2025 or the REMAIN in Mexico Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement the Migrant Protection Protocols as outlined in the January 25, 2019, memo titled Policy Guidance for Implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols.

(The protocols generally required aliens who are not clearly admissible, including those seeking asylum, arriving by land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be returned to Mexico while their immigration proceedings are pending, rather than remain in the United States. On January 21, 2021, DHS stopped applying the protocols to newly-arrived individuals.)

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 273 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 273

 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to continue to implement 
       the Migrant Protection Protocols, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2025

   Mr. Gill of Texas (for himself, Ms. Mace, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Weber of 
 Texas, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, 
Ms. Malliotakis, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Wied, Mr. Moore of West Virginia, Ms. 
  Boebert, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Crane, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. 
Brecheen, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Self, Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Houchin, Mrs. Miller 
of Illinois, Mr. Mills, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Yakym, Mr. Rulli, Mr. Biggs of 
   Arizona, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Messmer, Mr. Downing, Mr. 
 McGuire, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Perry, Mr. Harris of Maryland, Ms. Hageman, 
Mr. Fry, Mr. Babin, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Hern of Oklahoma, 
 Mr. Begich, Mr. Harris of North Carolina, Mr. Evans of Colorado, Mr. 
 Harrigan, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Dunn of Florida, Mr. Finstad, Mr. Norman, 
 Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. 
Barrett, Mr. Gooden, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Hamadeh of 
Arizona, Mr. Moran, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Guest, Mr. Bean of Florida, Ms. Foxx, 
 Ms. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. 
 Bost, Mr. Zinke, Mr. Collins, Mr. Estes, Mr. Alford, Mr. Clyde, Mrs. 
    Luna, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas, Mr. 
Fleischmann, Mr. Ciscomani, Mrs. Fischbach, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Moolenaar, 
Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. Carter of Georgia, and Mr. McDowell) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to continue to implement 
       the Migrant Protection Protocols, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Return Excessive Migrants and 
Asylees to International Neighbors in Mexico Act of 2025'' or the 
``REMAIN in Mexico Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. MIGRANT PROTECTION PROTOCOLS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall implement the Migrant Protection Protocols in 
accordance with the memorandum of Secretary of Homeland Security 
Nielsen entitled ``Policy Guidance for Implementation of the Migrant 
Protection Protocols'', dated January 25, 2019.
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